On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 09:15:10AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>
>
> On 10/06/25 10:31 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 06:31:28 +0100,
> > Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khand...@arm.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Change MDSCR_EL1 register holding local variables as uint64_t that reflects
> >> its true register width as well.
> >>
> >> Cc: Marc Zyngier <m...@kernel.org>
> >> Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.up...@linux.dev>
> >> Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.go...@arm.com>
> >> Cc: k...@vger.kernel.org
> >> Cc: kvm...@lists.linux.dev
> >> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> >> Cc: linux-kselft...@vger.kernel.org
> >> Cc: linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org
> >> Reviewed-by: Ada Couprie Diaz <ada.coupried...@arm.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khand...@arm.com>
> >> ---
> >> tools/testing/selftests/kvm/arm64/debug-exceptions.c | 4 ++--
> >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/arm64/debug-exceptions.c
> >> b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/arm64/debug-exceptions.c
> >> index c7fb55c9135b..e34963956fbc 100644
> >> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/arm64/debug-exceptions.c
> >> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/arm64/debug-exceptions.c
> >> @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ static void enable_os_lock(void)
> >>
> >> static void enable_monitor_debug_exceptions(void)
> >> {
> >> - uint32_t mdscr;
> >> + uint64_t mdscr;
> >>
> >> asm volatile("msr daifclr, #8");
> >>
> >> @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ void install_hw_bp_ctx(uint8_t addr_bp, uint8_t
> >> ctx_bp, uint64_t addr,
> >>
> >> static void install_ss(void)
> >> {
> >> - uint32_t mdscr;
> >> + uint64_t mdscr;
> >>
> >> asm volatile("msr daifclr, #8");
> >>
> >
> > Why change this in the place that matters *the least*?
> >
> > arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c is full of 32bit manipulation of
> > this register, and that's only one example of it. So if you are going
> > to change this, please do it fully, not as a random change in a random
> > file.
>
> The first patch in this series changes mdscr system register to 64 bit
> in the mentioned file (i.e arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c).
You did not Cc Marc on oatch 1 or the cover letter. KVM folk are only
Cc'd on patch 2.
Marc, for context the series is:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20250610053128.4118784-1-anshuman.khand...@arm.com/
... and I've asked Anshuman to better describe the rationale.
Mark.
